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#3927. From a pack of 52 cards, jacks, queens, kings, and aces of red color are removed. From the remaining, a card is drawn at random. Find the probability of the card being drawn is (i) a black jack (ii) a picture card (jacks, queens, and kings are picture cards).

Abraham-Louis Breguet, (born Jan. 10, 1747, Neuchatel, Switz.—died Sept. 17, 1823, Paris), the leading French horologist of his time, known for the profusion of his inventions and the impeccable style of his designs.

Breguet was apprenticed in 1762 to a watchmaker at Versailles. He took refuge in Switzerland during the French Revolution and, upon his return to France, became a principal watchmaker of the empire. Among Breguet’s many inventions and innovations were the overcoil, an improvement of the balance spring that was incorporated into many precision watches, and the tourbillon, an improvement that rendered the escapement immune to errors caused by the changing position of the watch while being carried. Breguet succeeded Pierre-Louis Berthoud as the official chronometer maker to the French navy in 1815 and was admitted to the French Academy of Sciences in 1816. Considered to be one of the greatest watchmakers of all time, Breguet had in his lifetime a worldwide reputation and clientele, and he influenced watchmaking throughout Europe.

#3926. From a pack of 52 cards, jacks, queens, kings, and aces of red color are removed. From the remaining, a card is drawn at random. Find the probability of the card being drawn is (i) a black queen (ii) a red card.

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#3925. Five cards - ten, jack, queen, king, and an ace of diamonds are shuffled face downwards. One card is picked at random. If a king is drawn first and put aside, what is the probability of the second card being picked by the ace?

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Did you know that bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis?* * *When the students noticed that the electricity went off during a storm, they were delighted [de-lighted].* * *Heard about the saying that it is better to love a short girl than not a tall?* * *Did you know that old power plant laborers never die, instead they just de-generate?* * *It is said that while some people consider marriage as a word, the rest consider it a sentence.* * *A court saying - old lawyers simply never die, they just lose their appeal.* * *Did you hear about the fight between the dentist and the manicurist? It is said they had it out tooth and nail.* * *My love for you is like pi... never ending. * * *Roses are #ff0000, violets are #0000ff, all my base are belong to you. * * *Are you made of Fluorine, Iodine, and Neon? 'Cause you are F-I-Ne?* * *Are you a piece of carbon? Because I would love to date you.* * *

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William Seward Burroughs I (January 28, 1855 – September 15, 1898) was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York.

Life and career

Burroughs was the son of a mechanic and worked with machines throughout his childhood. While he was still a small boy, his parents moved to Auburn, New York, where he and his brothers were educated in the public school system. At this time Burroughs became interested in solving the problem of creating an adding machine. In the bank there had been a number of earlier prototypes, but in inexperienced users' hands, those that existed would sometimes give incorrect, and at times outrageous, answers. The clerk work was not in accordance with Burrough's wishes, for he had a natural love and talent for mechanics, and the boredom and monotony of clerical life weighed heavily upon him. Seven years in the bank damaged his health, and he was forced to resign.

In the beginning of the 1880s (1880-1882) Burroughs was advised by a doctor to move to an area with a warmer climate and he moved to St. Louis, Missouri where he obtained a job in the Boyer Machine Shop. These new surroundings, which appealed to him more, hastened the development of the idea he had already in his mind, and the tools of his new craft gave him the opportunity to put into tangible form the first conception of the adding machine. Accuracy was the foundation of his work. No ordinary materials were good enough for his creation. His drawings were made on metal plates which could not expand or shrink by the smallest fraction of an inch. He worked with hardened tools, sharpened to fine points, and when he struck a center or drew a line, it was done under a microscope.

So, he invented a "calculating machine" (first patent filed in 1885) designed to ease the monotony of clerical work. He was a founder of the American Arithmometer Company (1886), which later became the Burroughs Adding Machine Company (1904), then the Burroughs Corporation (1953) and in 1986, merged with Sperry Corporation to form Unisys. He was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He was the grandfather of Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs and great-grandfather of William S. Burroughs, Jr., who was also a writer.

He died in Citronelle, Alabama and was interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.

#3923. A number x is selected from the numbers 1, 2, and 3 and a second number y is randomly selected from the numbers 1, 4, and 9. What is the probability of the product xy of the two numbers being less than 9?

#1137. Name the highly contagious bacterial disease. Initially, symptoms are usually similar to those of the common cold with a runny nose, fever, and mild cough. This is then followed by weeks of severe coughing fits. Following a fit of coughing, a high-pitched whoop sound or gasp may occur as the person breathes in. The coughing may last for 10 or more weeks, hence the phrase "100-day cough".